It feels like more Lemmy apps are going to make their way on to the app stores. With more apps, comes more people. More people, more API calls. How do we scale this server and hopefully all of the others to come, financially?
Look to Mastodon for what will happen. It went through a large migration from Twitter in the middle of November '22 (me included). The few established instances got slammed while new ones started. People started to move from larger to smaller instances that fit there needs. Many instances started accepting donations to cover costs and are in a good place.
The same will eventually happen to Lemmy.
The BIG difference is the API cutoff on July 1st will cause many to migrate the first week of July. There will be some pain and some inexperienced admins may just give up.
I’d really love to integrate Podcasting 2.0 RSS and the fediverse. How cool would it be if every podcast episode just had its own place in the fediverse with a place to chat and it all worked together somehow automatically.
Selecting All Instances and then Top Day. This will give you the highest upvotes for a federated instances for 24 hours. I used this to find and subscribe to communities i like.
BUT - Be aware that there is known bug in the current version of lemmy that causes an automatic refresh of new items.
For those admins still wondering take a look at how Mastodon did with the user explosion last year. I doubt the stack is that similar but I don't remember lots of instances going offline forever due to space constraints (alone). Some may have gone done to overall lack of resources but many are doing quite well.
In a perfect world Pixelfed would be tightly integrated with Lemmy and Mastodon. Pixelfed is the Fediverse's image sharing platform.
I tried posting a picture from Pixelfed to Mastodon several months ago and it was not integrated at all. I went back to uploading directly to Mastodon.
Details of the different Fediverse platforms - https://fediverse.party/